Annie Dillard: "Tulis tentang musim dingin di musim panas. Jelaskan No...

"Tulis tentang musim dingin di musim panas. Jelaskan Norwegia seperti yang dilakukan Ibsen, dari sebuah meja di Italia; menggambarkan Dublin seperti yang dilakukan James Joyce, dari sebuah meja di Paris. Willa Cather menulis novel prairie di New York City; Mark Twain menulis Huckleberry Finn di Hartford, Connecticut. Baru-baru ini, para sarjana mengetahui bahwa Walt Whitman jarang meninggalkan kamarnya."

--- Annie Dillard

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.